Our Mission in Ethiopia

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

We had a wonderful 2 1/2 days in Jinga, Uganda at our Seminaries & Institutes Conference! We fly back to Addis tomorrow night and then will have more training with Pres. and Sister Preator, since we will be filling in for them in the Ethiopia Mission Office in Addis after they go home on May 11th. We will need to move to Addis to be in the office M-F for 3 months, in charge of all finances, orders, etc. for the missionaries in Ethiopia, until a replacement couple arrives in August. We'll move back to our home in Debre Zeyit at that time.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Yahoo! We are in BEAUTIFUL Kampala, Uganda today! We just flew in for a Seminary & Institute Conference in Jinja tomorrow through Thursday. It is SO pretty and GREEN here! Here are a few photos taken from the car window as we drove an hour from the airport in Entebbe to Kampala. We also stopped at the Kololo Stake Center and met Freddie Babeeyo's family. Freddie picked us up from the airport and brought us to the Protea Hotel for the night.

These roses are at the Meganagna Chapel in Addis.

This was taken before we left for the airport.

Beautiful green Kampala!

Lake Victoria

We love the fruit stands with the fruit stacked up so creatively!

I LOVE the red dirt! (It reminds me of Bryce Canyon and

also Kauai, Hawaii....

A family riding on their boda boda

They are EVERYWHERE!! So are bicycles.

The very pretty red brick Kololo Stake Center in Kampala.

These little Primary girls greeted us at the Kololo Stake Center.

Freedie Babeeyo (hidden in the back) with his wife

Rose and five of his six children. The two boys and the

oldest daughter are returned missionaries. (She is married with a little girl.)

The two girls in pink and in blue are twins 18 years old and the one in

black is 15.

We met Rose at the Church just as she was leaving. She is

Freddie's Secretary in his Seminary & Institute Office at

the Stake Center and we email a lot with each other.

The beautiful Protea Hotel near the Stake Center where we are

staying tonight.

Bob with Freddie Babeeyo, Seminary &

Institute Director for Uganda

He is awesome!

On our bed.... "EAT ME, DRINK ME, READ ME"

We had YUMMY chips, peanuts and the tiniest bananas

we have ever seen!

The view from our balcony with the restaurant on the right.

We went for a walk to find an ATM to exchange

our money into Uganda shillings and saw these

interesting plants along the road...

The fountain next to the restaurant at the hotel.

One of the fun big, round, spotted birds that are popular here in Africa

They sell little pottery birds with dots on them in many of the shops

but this is the first time I have seen a REAL one!

Lemon Meringue Pie and REAL ice cream with toffee sauce!

YUMMY!! (So were our tilapia and pork chops but we ate

our dinner and forgot to take a picture....)

It's time for bed and we have a CHORUS of bull frogs outside

our window down by the fountain!!! They are SOOOO loud!!

Will they continue ALL night long?!?!

Well, we slept through the frog chorus..... Here is our AMAZING

breakfast, with some interesting, different fruit including gooseberries.